vocabulary workshop level g unit 2
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Vocabulary Workshop words with definition and example sentencesTRANSCRIPT
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Vocabulary Workshop
Level G Unit 2
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accost• (v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in
a challenging or aggressive way.
• Synonyms: approach, confront
• The nobleman was accosted by beggars on his way to the castle.
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animadversion• (n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or
disapproval.
• Synonyms: rebuke
• The young filmmaker was upset by the animadversion of the film critic.
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avid• (adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed;
intensely eager.
• Synonyms: enthusiastic, keen, grasping
• Most writers are also avid readers who have loved books since childhood.
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brackish• (adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to
drink.
• Synonyms: briny, saline
• The shipwrecked passengers adrift in the lifeboat became ill after drinking brackish water.
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celerity• (adj.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action.
• Synonyms: speed, alacrity
• Although the heavy snowfall was not expected, the highway department responded with surprising celerity.
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devious• (adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or
direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way.
• Synonyms: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly
• The interrogator used devious methods to try to get the suspect to incriminate himself.
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gambit• (n.) in chess, an opening move that involves risk
or sacrifice in order to gain later advantage; any opening move of this type.
• Synonyms: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver
• Asking an interesting stranger about his or her major is a popular college party gambit.
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halcyon• (n) legendary bird• (adj.) calm, peaceful, happy, golden; prosperous,
affluent
• Synonyms: tranquil, serene
• The teacher read the legend of the halcyon a mythic bird that nested in a calm sea.
• The old woman often spoke of the halcyon days of her childhood.
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histrionic• (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques;
theatrical, artificial; melodramatic.
• Synonyms: affected, stagy
• Upon receiving his award, the student gave a histrionic speech.
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incendiary• (adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed
to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion;• (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one
who causes strife.
• Synonyms: (adj.) inflammatory; (n.) firebrand
• The radical incendiary was sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Incendiary bombs started fires, but the wind fed and fanned the flames
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maelstrom• (n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a
situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction.
• Synonyms: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult
• Many innocent people caught in the maelstrom of the revolution lost their lives and property.
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myopic• (adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view
of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment.
• Synonyms: shortsighted
• Please don't be myopic or egocentric be a citizen of this planet.
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overt• (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in
a way that is easily recognized.
• Synonyms: clear, obvious, manifest
• In order for Congress to declare ware, the President must demonstrate an overt threat.
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pejorative• (adj.) tending to make worse; expressing
disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling.
• The lawyer was accused of making a pejoritive remark when referring to the defendant’s background.
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propriety• (adj.) the state of being proper, appropriateness;
(pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable.
• Synonyms: fitness, correctness, decorum
• After Harold wore a clown suit to his cousin’s funeral, we had to question his sense of propriety.
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sacrilege• (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of
something held sacred
• Synonyms: desecration, defilement
• The anthropologist was accused of committing a sacrilege when she disturbed an ancient burial ground.
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summarily• (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
• Synonyms: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly
• As soon as there was evidence of criminal wrongdoing, the official was summarily dismissed from his post.
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suppliant• (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; • (n.) one who makes a request humbly and
earnestly, a petitioner, suitor
• He made a suppliant address to the parole board.
• The suppliant entered the church seeking forgiveness.
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talisman• (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is
believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish
• Most people do not believe that rabbit’s feet and other talismans actually bring good luck
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undulate• (v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion;
to have a wavelike appearance or form
• Synonyms: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall.
• Throwing a stone in the lake will sometimes cause the water to undulate.